On this day: August 14

2013: Egypt declares a state of emergency as security forces kill hundreds of demonstrators supporting former President Mohamed Morsi, who had been removed from office by the military after mass street protests against him.

2012: Actor Ron Palillo, best known for playing Arnold Horshack on the sitcom "Welcome Back, Kotter," dies of a heart attack at age 63 in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.

2009: Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, a Charles Manson follower who tried to assassinate President Gerald Ford in 1975, is released from a Texas prison hospital after more than three decades behind bars.

2006: Actor Bruno Kirby, best known for movies like "When Harry Met Sally...," "City Slickers," "Good Morning, Vietnam," "The Godfather Part II," "The Freshman" and "Donnie Brasco," dies from complications related to leukemia at age 57 in Los Angeles, California.

1999: Baseball Hall of Fame shortstop Harold "Pee Wee" Reese, a 10-time All Star who contributed to seven National League championships and one World Series title with the Brooklyn Dodgers, dies of prostate and lung cancer at age 81 in Louisville, Kentucky. Reese was also well known for his support of teammate Jackie Robinson, who broke baseball's color barrier with the Dodgers in 1947.

1997: U.S. District Court Judge Richard Matsch formally imposes a death sentence on an unrepentant Timothy McVeigh for the Oklahoma City bombing. A federal jury had found him guilty of conspiracy to commit the attack and for the deaths of eight federal law agents and sentenced him to death in June 1997. He would be executed by lethal injection on June 11, 2001, at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana.

1994: Political terrorist Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, also known as "Carlos the Jackal," is captured. He was charged with the 1975 murders of two Paris policemen and of his Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine contact and eventually found guilty and sentenced to life in prison. While in prison he would be further convicted of attacks in France that killed 11 and injured 150 people and was sentenced to an additional life term. He's seen here in 1970s files from the KGB.

1988: Race car driver and entrepreneur Enzo Ferrari, the founder of the Scuderia Ferrari Grand Prix motor racing team and subsequently of the Ferrari sports car manufacturer, dies at age 90 in Maranello, Italy.

1983: Actress Mila Kunis, who first found fame on the sitcom "That '70s Show" before starring in movies like "The Black Swan," "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" (pictured), "Ted" and "Oz the Great and Powerful," is born in Chernivtsi, Ukraine.

1976: The Steve Miller Band's "Rock'n Me" enters the Hot 100 chart at No. 85. Twelve weeks later it would become Miller's second No. 1 single, after "The Joker" in early 1974.

1971: Rod Stewart's solo debut single "Maggie May" hits the charts. The song was originally the B-side to "Reason to Believe," but DJs became fonder of the B-side and, after two weeks on the charts, the song was reclassified, with "Maggie May" becoming the A-side.

1968: Actress Catherine Bell, best known for her roles in the TV series "JAG" (pictured) and "Army Wives," is born in London, England.

1966: Actress Halle Berry, known for movies such as "Jungle Fever," "Boomarang," "Monster's Ball," "X-Men" and "Catwoman," is born in Cleveland, Ohio. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in 2001's "Monster's Ball," becoming the first black actress to win the award. She's seen here in the 2011 romantic-comedy "New Year's Eve."

1961: Actress Susan Olsen, best known for playing Cindy Brady on the sitcom "The Brady Bunch," is born in Santa Monica, California.

1959: The American Football League conducts its first official meeting in Chicago and charter memberships are given to Dallas, New York, Houston, Denver, Los Angeles and Minneapolis-Saint Paul (although the Minnesota ownership group never fielded an AFL team, instead choosing an offer to join the NFL in 1961). The upstart AFL operated in direct competition with the more established NFL throughout its existence, until the two leagues merged in 1969.

1959: Actress Marcia Gay Harden, an Academy Award-winner for the 2000 movie "Pollock," is born in La Jolla, California. Harden also earned an Oscar nomination for "Mystic River" and is also known for her roles in the movies "Miller's Crossing," "The First Wives Club," "Space Cowboys," "Into the Wild" and "The Mist," and on the TV series "Damages" (pictured) and "The Newsroom."

1959: Hall of Fame point guard Earvin "Magic" Johnson is born in Lansing, Michigan. Johnson played his entire NBA career with the Los Angeles Lakers, winning five NBA titles and earning three NBA Finals MVP awards. Johnson retired abruptly in 1991 after announcing that he had contracted HIV, but returned to play in the 1992 All-Star Game, winning the All-Star MVP Award. He retired for another four years before returning to play 32 games for the Lakers in 1996, but retired for a third and final time. Johnson, who also won an NCAA title with Michigan State in 1979 and was a member of the Olympic gold medal-winning "Dream Team" in 1992, is also a successful businessman, running Magic Johnson Enterprises, and is part owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers.

1953: The Wiffle ball is invented by David N. Mullany at his home in Fairfield, Connecticut, when he designs a ball that curves easily for his 12-year-old son.

1953: Composer James Horner, known for scoring films like "Titanic," "Braveheart," "Apollo 13," "Field of Dreams" and "Avatar," is born in Los Angeles, California. Horner won Academy Awards and Golden Globes for the score to "Titanic" and for the song "My Heart Will Go On." His score for "Titanic" remains the best selling orchestral film soundtrack of all time. He's also won five Grammys, three for "My Heart Will Go On" and two for "Somewhere Out There" from the animated movie "An American Tail."

1951: American newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst dies at the age of 88 in Beverly Hills, California.

1950: Cartoonist Gary Larson, the creator of "The Far Side," a single-panel cartoon series that was syndicated internationally to more than 900 newspapers for 15 years, is born in Tacoma, Washington.

1947: Romance novelist Danielle Steel is born in New York City.

1945: Actor and comedian Steve Martin, best known for movies such as "The Jerk," "All of Me," "Planes, Trains and Automobiles," "Father of the Bride" and "Parenthood," is born in Waco, Texas.

1941: Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt sign the Atlantic Charter, which defined the Allied goals for World War II. The stated ideal goals included: no territorial aggrandizement; no territorial changes made against the wishes of the people; restoration of self-government to those deprived of it; free access to raw materials; reduction of trade restrictions; global cooperation to secure better economic and social conditions for all; freedom from fear and want; freedom of the seas; and abandonment of the use of force, as well as disarmament of aggressor nations.

1941: Singer-songwriter David Crosby, a founding member of The Byrds and Crosby, Stills & Nash, is born in Los Angeles.

1936: Rainey Bethea is hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky, in the last public execution in the United States. Bethea, who was a black man, confessed to the rape and murder of a 70-year-old white woman named Lischia Edwards. Mistakes in performing the hanging and the surrounding media circus contributed to the end of public executions in the United States.

1936: The first Olympic basketball gold medal game is held at the Summer Games in Berlin, Germany. The U.S. defeated Canada, 19-8, in game played outdoors on a dirt court in a driving rain. Due to the quagmire, the teams could not dribble and scoring was held to a minimum. The medals, which included a bronze for Mexico for defeating Poland 26-12, were awarded by James Naismith, the founder of basketball.

1935: The United States Social Security Act is signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, creating a government pension system for the retired.

1893: France becomes the first country to introduce motor vehicle registration with the passage of the Paris Police Ordinance, which stated: "Each motor vehicle shall bear on a metal plate and in legible writing the name and address of its owner, also the distinctive number used in the application for authorization. This plate shall be placed at the left-hand side of the vehicle -- it shall never be hidden."

1891: Sarah Childress Polk, who served as first lady of the United States from 1845 to 1849 as the wife of President James K. Polk, dies at age 87 in Nashville, Tennessee.

1851: John Henry "Doc" Holliday, the gambler, gunfighter and dentist who played a part in the Earp family's shootout at the O.K. Coral in Tombstone, Arizona, is born in Griffin, Georgia.

1848: The Oregon Territory is organized by act of the United States Congress with Oregon City as its capital. The territory encompasses all of the present-day states of Idaho, Oregon and Washington, as well as those parts of present day Montana and Wyoming west of the Continental Divide.

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